Itagaki probubly knows something, if Nintendo was to launch a new platform in 2011 or even 2012 then dev kits would/should already be in their early forms and in the hands of select developers. Itagaki is a very famous and prominent developer and Nintendo knows they need third party support.

Considering Yoshio Sakamoto recently talked about Nintendo's next home platform. Iwata has been talking about it all year how its going to change the way we play games and deliver features which the Wii could not. Not to mention Miyamoto's mentionings too ever since he first mentioned the console at E3 2006.

Considering the console has been in the works since Wii was announced if not earlier. Since all these prominent developers are bragging or talking about what the next Nintendo system will do. Chances are developers already have the next Nintendo system's dev kits and are hard at work on software.

Keep in mind the next Nintendo system is expected in 2011. At latest 2012!

this is vague...

Don't expect specific information, I bet some developers know the early details of the system, specialy when developing time is about 1 1/2 or 2 years.

It could just be like that Midway game that came to light after the company went bankrupt referring to "PS3, 360, and Next-gen Nintendo" or something like that. Whoever's publishing for him could just be secretly wishing Nintendo falls within their hardware sphere so they can get some more sales

Lol.

Wow, that helped a lot¬¬

Like when they said Iwata was fighting Apple, righto?

Why would Nintendo suddenly change their routine. If they launched in 2011 or 2012, they'd be first on the market. Their never first. If they did decide to jump-start the Next Generation, they'd gain a huge lead and get tons of third party support. But they'd also probably not be able to offer Crysis level graphics, innovative motion controls and turn a profit from day one. Unless they have AMD make them some dirt cheap GPU which is capable of producing Crysis-like visuals via unorthodox programming methods.

DS was first in the handheld race with the PSP

That game was "This is Vegas", actually it was never announced for the next Nintendo plataform, the other "plataform" was Pc

Ah, thanks.

AMD already has a graphics card that can run Crysis (keep in mind that's unoptimized code on a PC) quite well that retails for $70.  Remove the extra parts required for a PC's graphics card and retail markup, and you'd have an affordable option.

Even AMD's $50 cards have more graphical horsepower than the PS3 does now.